The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-18
HARMLESS YELLOW JACK.
A Jacksonville Physician Who Says it
Cannot Spread.

Cannot Spread.
From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Netcs- Herald.
"What of danger do you apprehend from
yellow fever, doctorF' we inquired of r. B.
Burroughs, NJ. D., last night, as the thought
occurred that no physician in the South is
better, and few so well, posted on the sub
ject now uppermost in the public mind.
You may say, replied the doctor, ION
my responsibility, and with the utmost con-
fidence, that if a case of influenza, or bad
cold" as it is commonly termed. were
brought to Jacksonville from Tampa, Pa
latka or elsewhere at this time, | should
just as soon expect to see yellow fever
spread from that case of bad cold as |
should expect to see it from any case of yell
low fever brought into this city"
You take very strong and positive
ground on the subject"
"And | mean it, every word, resumed
the doctor. After thirty-fve years ex-
perience in several cities of the South
after having gone through scores of yellow
fever epidemics, and lost several members
of my immediate family, | am willing to
| risk my professional reputation on the
opinion that you may bring into Jackson
vile tonight the worst case of yellow fever
in all Florida, and whether the patient died
or recovered, not another case would grow
out of it--utterly impossible"
This makes assurance doubly sure We
were discussing the interesting diagnosis of
| DR.. Scahmidt (of New Orleans of break
| bone and yellow fever. The most carefully
prepared paper on this subject known to the
profession is that of DIR. r. B. Burroughs, in
| a pamphlet on the diagnosis of yellow fever,
bone fever and bilious fever. He has made
the three diseases the subject of profound
study and observation, and has plates of
the livers taken from the dead by DIR. Nc
| Farlane and himself in yellow and bill
| ious fever. From his clear delineation
it seems easy to distinguish the three dis
eases during life, and certainly after death.
He states that death hardly ever occurs in
break bone fever unless the patient has
| heart disease, and that yellow fever is sell
dom contagious; that is to say, it is seldom
contracted by one individual from another.
In the pamphlet to which we refer 1t is
easy for even layman to compare the
prominent features of the three maladies as
| follows:
INVASION AND DURATION
Yello1 Feuer-Invasion sudden; one
paroxysm of fever lasts from IL to az hours;
| has no critical discharge
| Break Bone FeUer.-lnvason sudden; two
| more paroXysns, with regular remissions: fever
| lasts from to days: has critical discharges;
| spreads generally more rapidly.
Bilious FeUer.-lnvaSlon not so sudden; no
definite number of paroXySms; fever lasts from
6 to Is hours; distinct periodicity; critical dis
charges; a cold, hot and sweating stage.
| TONGUE.
Yellop FeUer.-Creamy white sometimes
red at edges; mouth not generally sore.
Break Bone FeUer- Generally whitish and
peculiar bitter taste, like quinine or quasia, and
| sore mouth
Bilious Fever-very foul and brown, or
| brownsh yellow; sometimes sore mouth.
| YellotU Feuer-Interjected watery, smoky
| look; often reddish yellow, with dropping lids
| Break Bone FeUer-Red and congested: in
tolerance of light dilated pupils; very painful
| eyelids uedematous.
| Bilious FeUer-Sometimes injected and pain
| full; not so marked.
YelioU Ferer-Yellow generally in fatal cases:
in second stage, hot and dry.
| Break Bone FeUeT-Eruption slight and tran
sient in first fever; decided in second, like urti
cana, herpes or elevated and red like measles;
| generally hot and dry.
brownsh yellow; later aucune; in bad cases, hot
and sweaty
| Yellotc Feuer-Not increasing pori pa ssu with
heat; may fall as temperature rises; generally
under ITO, and goes down to 10 or 80 beats to the
minute.
| Break Bone FeUer-Increases at first with
rise of temperature; reaches 40 or 40 per min
ute. After fever, tendency to run down to SIS
or so, and to faintness and weakness heart
| Bilious HeCer-lncreases with rise of temper
| allure; reaches 100 to 140. ..4
URINE.
Yeuow FeUer-Almost always albuminous
Ballot found it so in 300 cases; generally scanty;
tendency to suppress
Break Bone Ferer-Generaly abundant acid
and free of sediment. Thomas examined
| number of cases and found no albumen; gen
orally not albuminous.
| Bilious herei.-(ienerally acid, scantY. high
coored; lateriteous. high specific gravity and
seldom contains albumen.
REGULARITY OF MATTER AND MANNER OF VOMITING.
YelLoW Fever-Generaly, no bile in matter
vomited; when seen, favorable symptom. Its
| absence diagnostic chocolate or reddish form
| coffee ground SEDIMENT microscope shows
| hematoidin and blood disks expelled with
force. In 1872 DR.. Arnold published his opinion
that it was his opinion that II was blood altered
by acid black discharges due to hematodin
| Break Bone Ferer-Burning pain in the stom-
ache; bilious vomiting.
Bilious Eerer-Vomiting of yellow bile: in
malignant cases, larry and black, but micro
scope shows bile and not hematoidn, or blood
disks
BOWELS
Yello,u FeUeT-Decided tendency to hemor-
rhage, manifested by black vomit; also from
| bowels, nose bladder and uterus.
Break Bone FeUer--Often frothy and some
| times slate coored; tendency TO hemorrhage
| Bilious FeUer-Constipated or bilious dis.
charges. Sometimes hemorrhage from the nose.
| INTELLECT.
YetiO1c Feuer-lts state differs in different
! epidemics generally less affected than i'm other
| feyerS. often apathy and Indifference from want
! times from urinic poisoning; fright more Undue
| tive of disease at first than in other fevers.
Break Bone Fever-Dull; a sort of hebetude of
! the mind.
Bilious Fever-G Generally more affected than
| in yellow fever; stupor often for days before
death; have seen mind clear to the last, gen
| orally the reverse
In break-bone fever the pain is decidedly
more severe, and a more common symptom
in the other fever 1t is not yet decided
whether dengue is contagious, though it is
rarely ever fatal.
! The foregoing facts should enable any one
to detect the nature of any of the three
feyers, and may be Of present value 10 our
friends in Tampa.